CASTLETON, a parish in the hundred of SHERBORNE, Sherborne division of the county of DORSET, 1 mile (E. N. E.) from Sherborne, containing 174 inha-. bitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Salisbury, endowed with £400 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £30ft parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Earl Digby. The church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene.